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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1991

2005

2013

2020

Current release

5.7

5.3.3, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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